Incredible Folk Art Painted Antique Iron Cow Bell With Cast Iron Clapper brutalist ceramics or olive pits

or olive pits

Much less cumbersome now on his own

I really love the disposition of this one

giving thanks to various saints for their divine interventions

Incredible Folk Art Painted Antique Iron Cow Bell With Cast Iron Clapper brutalist ceramics or olive pitsThis amazing thing, quite a potent object I think, resonating in all sorts of ways. What a face, smiling but also perhaps a bit haunting, in very old, very crusty paint that clearly weathered the elements for many many years, with a red painted mouth stretching from one end to the other and perhaps a second eye like a shadow below the right one. Some old yellow paint around the edges too. The round, cast iron clapper inside produces the most wonderful